Plato Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Eye Quotes

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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A work well begun is half-ended.

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The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

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Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

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The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.

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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

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But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

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Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

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